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[Wangja]

I recently read "Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity" by GB Singh. I met GB a couple of times when he was in Korea between 2001 and 2002.

Here is an extract from the inside flap:

[On the other hand]

Here's the only thing I could find on-line about the Doherty murder. It's from a website championing the "Sudroid negro" people of India, who apparently aren't too big on Hinduism or the caste system, and whose spokesmen identify them with the African diaspora. I have to admit I'd never heard of them before.

http://www.dalitstan.org/books/gandhi/gandhi3.html

From what I can glean, the "coverup" basically involved asking Doherty's widow not to tell the American public about the murder.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I know little more about him than the movie either, but I'm always leary of revisionist history. Sometimes it's justified and sometimes it's just a hatchet job.

[Gwangjuboy]

I read somewhere that he had black slaves, and that he hated black people.

[dulouz]

I saw a Penn and Teller program where they ripped on Mother Teresa, Ghandi and the Tibetan monks. They said Ghandi hated Black people and they showed some proof. Thats not the only place I've heard it too.

[robitusson]

Louis Fischer's definitive biography goes into his attitude towards blacks in South Africa to a degree. Gandhi freely admitted that he was only interested in the concerns of the Indians in South Africa at this time and had no appreciation for the plight of black South Africans. He also made a lot of other admissions about himself which portrayed him in a less than flattering light, such as his visit to a brothel and his meat-eating. It was his honesty and openess that made him remarkable not only what he did and said. There's other "revelations" about the Dalai Lama on various websites too. These exposes don't mean anything.

[Gwangjuboy]

[Gwangjuboy]

��A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir��.


��What the British Indians pray for is very little. They ask for no political power. They admit the British race should be the dominant race in South Africa. All they ask for is freedom for those that are now settled and those that may be allowed to come in future to trade, to move about, and to hold landed property without any hindrance save the ordinary legal requirements.��


��Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the Kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension. ...Of course, under my suggestion, The Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly.��

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-3-2005_pg4_24


It seems that Ghandi was indeed a racist.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Gwangjuboy]

[dulouz]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[bigverne]

You do realise that the South African word 'Kaffir' is the equivalent of n*gger, and is almost always used in a derogatory fashion. I know it's hard for you too deal with, but brown people can be just as racist as whites. In fact, Indians are some of the most racist people I have met, especially when it comes to black people.

[Thunndarr]

[Hollywoodaction]

He probably wasn't a racist, but he certainly didn't feel the need to condemn his suporters who didn't abide to his philosophy of peaceful resistance.